Siraj urges govt to review India policy

LAHORE: Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Senator Sirajul Haq has stressed the federal government to review its soft policy on India in view of New Delhi’s strong reaction to a US decision to sell F-16s to Pakistan.

He said that India had been outraged by the US sale of fighter jets to Pakistan and the US Envoy in New Delhi had been summoned to lodge a formal protest over it. On the other hand, he said, the rulers in Islamabad are continuing a soft policy vis a vis India and wanted friendship with it, he lamented.

India, he said, was amassing arms and ammunition although it faced no threat from any outside power. He said that Pakistan had never committed aggression against India whereas India had thrust two wars on Pakistan and played a leading role in the creation of Bangladesh of which Indian Premier Modi publicly confessed.

The JI chief slated an increase in medicines prices including life saving drugs and deplored that the government as well as the opposition were not moved over the decision of pharmaceutical companies. He said the JI was launching a country wide campaign against corruption next month.